Leonia (Boundary) Cemetery

updated 6-28-2010

    Directions:  Take Hwy 2 west out of Troy to the top of the hill and turn left onto "Southside Road" (#4402) and always stay/bear to the right ( make sure you pack a lunch and have a tank full of gas) the turn off to the cemetery is Approx 16 miles. At 1 1/2 miles road forks, stay right.... at 2.9 cross bridge at Ruby Creek, 7.5 miles another small bridge, and at 11 miles see Idaho Border marker on the right side, in 4-5 miles you will see the turn off on the right,  then continue for 2 miles and you will see Boulder City on the left,  then continue for two more miles (you can see the old "Leonia Bridge" across the river), if you watch  and the road forks you are there, look  to your left and a little to the east in the tree's and you will see a rail fence please leave it in a clean state,  and please, do not remove anything. If anyone goes out, call me and I'll make a new marker for the Morris girl.  

John Feldenzer:  406-293-6928

GPS:  N48.61920,  W116.05747   

 

cemetery site

Cemetery site

Bettie R. Oaks

Oscar R. Breimon

Information below, was taken from the Kootenai Herald and or the Bonners Ferry Herald.

Name

Birth Date

Death Date

Buried Date

remarks

Note page

John M. Gorman

 

08/23/1898

   

2

Jack Conway

 

09/08/1901

 

drowned near Leonia

 

O.J.Jones

 

03/22/1906

 

died in a train wreck near Leonia

 

James Melroy

1880

03/30/1906

     

Frank Blakely

 

06/(?)/1912

 

shot to death in Leonia

 

Tannas Mahall

1884

08/08/1913

     

Oscar R. Breimon

1884

10/16/1918

     

Mathilda R. Fatland

1898

10/23/1918

     

John H. Taylor

10/13/1851

07/30/1921

     

George Henry Taylor

 

08/(?)/1921

     

Jacob Lang

02/23/1852

08/08/1922

 08/10/1922   farm accident            28

Bettie R. Oaks

05/17/1922

08/12/1922

     

unknown

       

3

3 unknown men

 

1897

   

4

 

LEONIA and LEONIA SIDING  (Kootenai River - State Line) 
A Great Northern railroad siding located at the mouth of Boulder Creek in Idaho in 1892.    A small settlement developed at the siding in 1894.  The size of the settlement grew when it became a rail head for supplies and food for the mining town of Sylvanite, Montana.  Flooding of Boulder Creek in 1897 destroyed the settlement and the Great Northern moved the siding to its present location on the   Montana-Idaho state line.  Rumors say that the old settlement was nothing more than a memory by the late 1940. Reportedly named for a camp follower in 1892.

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